Arapahoe County Quilters

 

Programs 2005

January 13, 2005  -   Demo Night

February 10, 2005  -   Hoffman Challenge

Enjoy the quilts from the 2004 Hoffman Challenge.  For more information, visit  http://www.hoffmanchallenge.com/.  ACQ's challenge for 2005 will also be presented.  Fabric kits for the challenge will be available for sale.

March 10, 2005  -   Amy Clarke  "Beaded Embellishment on Cloth"

www.amyclarkemoore.com

April 14, 2005   -   Kim Wulfert "A Quilter's Journey through New England"

This is a slide presentation Kimberly narrates, which is fun, highly educational and visually interesting.  She teaches about early 18th to 19th century quilt and textile history, focusing on the New England area, where the textile Industrial Revolution began in the US.  See more at http://www.antiquequiltdating.com/bio.html

May 12, 2005  -   Potluck Dinner and Election of New Officers

June 9, 2005  -   Judy Neimeyer, "Reaching Beyond Tradition with Foundation Piecing"

Judy Niemeyer hails from northwest Montana where she creates and sells foundation paper pieced quilt patterns All of the patterns are based around traditional quilt designs, adapted into foundation paper piecing. Each of Judy's patterns has a sense of a familiar design, but with a unique, original twist.

Read more about Judy at www.Quiltworx.com. 

July 14, 2005   -   Lenore Crawford, "Impressionistic Fabric Blending"

As an artist, Lenore Crawford has used many different mediums to express herself. In the last four or five years she has been working in the design and construction of art quilts using the watercolor quilting technique. This technique uses 2" squares of hundreds of different fabrics to create a scene she has designed. 

Read more about Lenore, who lives in Midland, Michigan, at www.LenoreCrawford.com.

August 11, 2005  -   Lura Schwarz Smith, "Journey of an Art Quilter"  

This is a slide talk, a lighthearted retrospective look at the development of my work, covering almost 30 years of textile work and play. We'll see some things that worked, and some that didn't, but were fun learning experiences. Some of the current techniques I use and teach are shown. A small trunk show is given after the talk.

Read more about Lura at http://www.lura-art.com/

September 8, 2005  -   Sally Schnieder, "Borders the Built-In Way"

Wouldn't you love to be able to transform the complex construction of traditional pieced borders into an easier block method?  Trace the development of the technique from it's early beginnings; see how to make more than a dozen different borders painlessly and easily -- the built-in way.

 http://www.sallyschneider.com/

 

October 13, 2005  -   Bonnie McCaffery, "Fantasy Fabric"

Fantasy Fabric. What is it? Wonderful fabric created by capturing various items under a sheer layer of fabric - cut fabrics, threads, feathers, silk flowers, Tintzl, glitter confetti, and a variety of other things. We'll explore how fantasy fabric is created and many of the spectacular uses and quilts. http://www.bonniemccaffery.com/